Salter.



Patented May 22, |900. D. W. PAYNE.

S A L T E R (Applcatqn led Sept. 25, 1899.)

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DARLUS PAY N l l-/IS A TTORNEVS UNTTED j STATES PATENT Carica'.

DARIUS V. PAYNE, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

'SALTTER.1"

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent o. 650 ,155, datedMay 22, 1900. Appncataifuea september 25,*1s9z9f saliti nmz-31,550. (N6 anni.)

To aZZ whom it may con/ecrit; Y

Be it known that I, DARIUs W. PAYNE, of Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota, have invented certain Improvements in Salters, of which the following is a specification.

4This invention relates to improvements in salters designed especially for use in churns or butterworlers for salting the butter immediately after the churning process and before or while working; and the invention consists, generally in a suitablereceptacle, preferably in the form of a drum,`in which the butter is formed or in which itis placed, and a suitable salt-distributer arranged in said drum or receptacle and adapted to sift or sprinkle the salt evenly over the butter contained in said drum or receptacle.

The invention consists, further, in the constructions and combinations hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a vdrum or receptacle, which may be the body of a churn or butterworker, showing my salter arranged therein. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the salter, showing the cylinder open. Fig. 4 is asimilar View showing the cylinder closed. Figs. 5 and 6 are details showing the means for locking the two parts of the cylinder together.

In the drawings, 2 represents a suitable drum or receptacle, which may be of any suitable form, construction, or capacity. As here shown, the drum is mounted by means of gndgeons 3 upon suitable standards 5. This drum or receptacle may be the drum of a churn, butter-worker, or combined churn and butter-worker, and it may be mounted in any suitable frame provided with any suitable means for agitatin g the cream or working the butter and with any suitable means for driving it, or the drum or receptacle may be a receptacle of anysuitable construction in which the butter is placed for the purpose of being salted. Arranged within the drum or recep tacle 2 is a suitable perforated cylinder 7. As here shown, this cylinder consists of two parts hinged together at 9 and provided with suitable latches 10, pivoted upon one part of `with a drivin g-pulley 19.

the cylinder near the meeting edge of the two parts and adapted to engage an eccentric stud 11 upon the other part of the cylinder. As here shown, the stud is provided with ahandle 12, by means of which it may be rotated so as to draw the two parts of the cylinder closely together and lock them securely in this position. The cylinder 7, as here shown, is mounted upon the hollow gudgeons 13, which are in turn mounted in the gudgeons by which the drum or receptacle 2 is supported.

One of the gudgeons 13 is preferablyprovided witha driving-pulley 15. Arranged to pass cent-rally through the cylinder 7 andthrough one of the gudgeons 13 is a shaft 17, provided This shaft passes longitudinally and centrally through the cylinder 7 and has its bearings in the gudgeons 13. Arranged upon the shaft 17 are a series of blades or beaters 2l. (See Figs. 3 and t.) These are preferably curved spring-plates secured to the shaft and having their free edges extending quite close to the inner surface of the cylinder. The cylinder 7 is preferably formed of perforated sheet metal, as shown in the drawings, although, if preferred, it may be formed of wire-cloth or other suitable material. When in operation, both the cylinder and the central shaft may be rotated. They may be rotated in opposite directions or in the same direction at different rates of speed or either one may remain stationary while the other is rotating. The result is that the salt placed in the cylinder 7 will be evenly distributed over the butter contained in the drum or receptacle 2 before or while working.

Vhere the device in which the salter is placed is used in a churn, or a combined churn and butter-Worker, it may be arranged so as to be removed from the drum during the churning operation or it may be left therein, as preferred. The cylinder of the salter is shown in the accompanying drawings as located centrally in the drum or receptacle 2. It need not, however, be thus located; but it may be supported by any suitable'means in any suitable position within the druin or receptacle.

The details of construction of the cylinder and of the beaters located therein and of means for supporting and operating these IOO parts may obviously be varied in many particulars Without departing from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Y -1. The combination, with a revoluble butter-holding receptacle, of a perforated saltdistributing cylinder arranged Within said receptacle, and means for supporting and op erating said cylinder.

2. The combination, with a revoluble but=. ter-holding receptacle, of aperforated cylinder, means for supporting said cylinder Within said receptacle and means for rotating said oyhnder.

DARIUS W. PAYNE.

i In presence of-- A. C. PAUL,

A. F. HOLMES. 

